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A catheter shaft for a balloon catheter includes a centrally-located guidewire lumen. A body portion of the catheter shaft includes arc-shaped nodes that define a guidewire track within the guidewire lumen. Each node provides a single contact point for a guidewire within the guidewire lumen, thereby limiting frictional contact due to “rolling” friction, rather than “sliding” friction, between the catheter shaft and an inserted guidewire. The nodes include a crown region that includes the contact point. The crown region may be formed of a material having a lower coefficient of friction than the remaining portion of the catheter shaft. At least one node has an inflation lumen extending therethrough. The inflation lumen is in fluid communication with an interior of an inflatable balloon.

A multi display apparatus includes a first body including a first display, a second body including a second display, a hinge configured to rotatably connect the first body and the second body to support the first body and the second body, a sensor configured to sense a first user manipulation made in a nondecisive location of a nonstructured first screen displayed on the first display and to sense a second user manipulation made in a nondecisive location of a nonstructured second screen displayed on the second display, and a controller configured to combine the sensed first user manipulation and second user manipulation to perform an operation corresponding to a result of the combination.

The glass film laminate comprises a laminate structure of three or more layers, which includes a layer formed of a glass film and a transparent resin layer. The both outermost layers of the glass film laminate are formed of the glass film. The glass film has a thickness of 300 μm or less, and the transparent resin layer has a thickness larger than that of the glass film.

Apparatus and method for detecting the presence or amount or rate of binding of an analyte in a sample solution is disclosed. The apparatus includes an optical assembly having first and second reflecting surfaces separated by a distance “d” greater than 50 nm, where the first surface is formed by a layer of analyte-binding molecules, and a light source for directing a beam of light onto said first and second reflecting surface. A detector in the apparatus operates to detect a change in the thickness of the first reflecting layer resulting from binding of analyte to the analyte-binding molecules, when the assembly is placed in the solution of analyte, by detecting a shift in phase of light waves reflected from the first and second surfaces.

A secondary battery comprising: a substrate; a first current collector; a first electrode; a solid electrolyte; a second electrode; and a second current collector; the first current collector being formed on the substrate and serving as a current collector of the first electrode, the first electrode being formed on the first current collector, the solid electrolyte being formed on the first electrode, the second electrode being formed on the solid electrolyte, the second current collector being formed on the second electrode and serving as a current collector of the second electrode, at least one electrode selected from the group consisting of the first electrode and the second electrode containing at least one material selected from the group consisting of an ion conductive material and an electron conductive material.

We have developed an improved vapor-phase deposition method and apparatus for the application of organic films/coatings containing a variety of functional groups on substrates. Most substrates can be coated using the method of the invention. The substrate surface is halogenated using a vaporous halogen-containing compound, followed by a reaction with at least one organic molecule containing at least one nucleophilic functional group capable of reacting with a halogenated substrate surface. The halogenation of the substrate surface and the subsequent reaction with the organic molecule nucleophilic functional group are carried out in the same process chamber in a manner such that the halogenated substrate surface does not lose its functionality prior to reaction with the nucleophilic functional group(s) on the organic molecule. Typically the process chamber is operated under a pressure ranging from about 1 mTorr to about 10 Torr.

Disclosed herein are an electrode assembly having separators the upper ends of which are sealed and a secondary battery including the same. The electrode assembly has a cathode/separator/anode structure that can be charged and discharged. The separators, which protrude beyond the upper ends of the electrodes, are bent in one direction, the separators are heat-treated such that the bent state of the separators is fixed, and an insulative coating layer is formed at the bent surfaces of the separators. Consequently, foreign matter is prevented from being introduced into the electrode assembly, and therefore, the safety of electrode assembly is improved.

The invention provides hyaluronic acid compounds and derivatives thereof for increasing vaginal cell growth, vaginal cell maturation and vaginal moisture, as well as compositions, articles and methods for treating and preventing vaginal conditions characterized by poor vaginal cell growth, low vaginal cell differentiation and low vaginal moisture.

Autocatalytic plating is a form of electrode-less plating in which a metal, for example, cobalt, nickel, gold, silver or copper, is deposited onto a substrate via a chemical reduction process. Coatings derived from this process are usually more uniform and adherent than from other processes and can be applied to unusually shaped surfaces. Non-metallic surfaces can only usually be coated via this process following suitable sensitisation of the substrate. This invention therefore provides a method of preparing a substrate material for subsequent autocatalytic deposition of a metal coating reducing the need for surface preparation by using a reducible silver salt with a suitable filler in a printable ink formulation. Autocatalytic deposition may be used to coat whole surfaces or pre-determined patterns may be deposited by known printing methods.

The invention relates to a method of producing a laminated packaging material including a core layer of paper or paperboard and a barrier layer applied on one side of the core layer. The invention also relates to a laminated packaging material produced according to the method, as well as a packaging container which is produced from the laminated packaging material.

Combined methods for treating a patient using time-varying magnetic field are described. The treatment methods combine various approaches for aesthetic treatment. The methods are focused on enhancing a visual appearance of the patient.

The invention discloses a method for quickly improving the outplanting rate of culture of kiwi fruit seedlings. The method has the technical characteristics that seeds of delicious kiwi fruits (i.e. the hairy variety) are adopted. The method comprises the steps of: sterilizing soil of a seedbed five to seven days before sowing, and soaking the seeds in water with the temperature of 50-60 DEG C for two to three hours before sowing; sowing in the middle ten days and the last ten days of January, transplanting at the appropriate time of the last ten days of March and the first ten days of April when young seedlings have four to five leaves, extirpating one to two knots at the tips of rootstocks in the first ten days of June, removing coppice shoots 5-10cm at the base parts of seedling trunks in time to guarantee smoothness of the parts of the seedlings to be grafted, grafting single-bud branches at the venter of the rootstocks in the first ten days and the middle ten days of June to the first ten days and the middle ten days of July, breaking the rootstocks off in the last ten days of July and the middle ten days of August, reserving four to five knots above engrafting buds, and breaking off the rootstocks with only barks remained; shearing the rootstocks in the first ten days of September, reserving 4-5cm stumps during stock shearing, removing buds of the rootstocks in time after stock shearing, removing the buds and shearing the coppice shoots as soon as the buds and coppice shoots are come out, and promoting the grafting buds to grow vigorously in combination with the supply of fertilizers and water; and making the kiwi fruit seedlings reach the standard of outplanting at the end of the same year, wherein the rate of outplanting in the same year reaches 80 percent to 90 percent.

A strut mount capable of reducing the weight and of intensifying the strength and having a good durability is provided. It comprises an inner cylinder, a vibration isolating base body and a pair of upper and lower brackets. The lower bracket is fabricated from aluminum alloy and includes a peripheral wall portion, a bottom wall portion and a first attachment flange while the upper bracket includes a second attachment flange and a lid wall portion. The first attachment flange has plural first through-holes for inserting plural attachment members, the second attachment flange has plural second through-holes for inserting the plural attachment members, and flange portions around the first through-holes of the first attachment flange bulge at their undersides to form respective thick-walled portions.

An embrittlement layer is formed in the single crystal semiconductor substrate and a first impurity semiconductor layer, a first electrode, and an insulating layer are formed on one surface of the single crystal semiconductor substrate. After attaching the insulating layer and a supporting substrate to each other to bond the single crystal semiconductor substrate and the supporting substrate, the single crystal semiconductor substrate is separated along the embrittlement layer to form a stack including a first single crystal semiconductor layer. A first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer are formed over the first single crystal semiconductor layer. A second single crystal semiconductor layer is formed by solid phase growth. A second impurity semiconductor layer having a conductivity type opposite to that of the first impurity semiconductor layer is formed on the second single crystal semiconductor layer. A second electrode is formed on the second impurity semiconductor layer.

The present invention discloses biological process of converting sugar-containing solution into perfume for cigarette. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is utilized in converting sugar into flavor enhancing perfume for cigarette. The present invention provides one way for applying sugar in cigarette making to raise the quality of cigarette product and promote the development of cigarette perfume industry.

The invention discloses a compound raspberry wine provided with a biological effect and a production method thereof. The compound raspberry wine is prepared from the following berries by weight: 30%-35% of red raspberries, 20%-25% of black raspberries, 30%-35% of black mulberries, 5%-10% of black currants and 4%-7% of wolfberries. The production method comprises the following steps: weighing and cleaning the berries; mixing the berries and freezing the berries at a low temperature; filling a fermentation tank with carbon dioxide; heating and coldly soaking the burst mixed berries; fermenting and mixing with sugar; terminating fermentation; naturally subsiding and separating; feeding clarifying agents and separating; removing particle impurities in clarified wine, regulating the concentration of sulfur dioxide and obtaining qualified wine products through a membrane filtering machine. According to the invention, the berry raw materials and weight ratio thereof are reasonably combined, so that not only are the compositions of functional ingredients in the wine products enriched, and the taste characters of the products are improved, but also fermentation berries and wine can be protected from being infected by aerobic bacteria, therefore, the safety of fruits and wine is ensured.

A seat-cushion shell unit is configured to include a support panel provided to be movable up and down and tiltable to an arbitrary angle below a seat cushion shell, and a support pad provided between the seat cushion shell and the support panel. A front end part and a rear end part of a support panel are fixed to the seat frame, and the seat-cushion shell unit is attached to the seat frame.

A method for manufacturing an organic electroluminescent device having an organic functional layer formed between facing electrodes, the method includes forming separators which separate either of the electrodes into a strip, forming an electrode film between the separators with a vapor deposition method, and placing a further electrode material on the electrode film which is formed between the separators with the vapor deposition method.

An absorbent article having a topsheet 2, a backsheet 3, and an absorbent member 4 interposed between the topsheet 2 and the backsheet 3 is disclosed. The absorbent member 4 has a number of compressed parts 7 which are discrete from one another and concave on the backsheet facing side and/or the topsheet facing side. The compressed part is configured to increase in thickness on absorbing liquid. The comperssed part is made up of a thinnest portion 8 and a sloping portion 9. The sloping portion a gradually changes in thickness to connect to the thinnest portion 8.

The invention discloses a top grafting method of paraphlonias with high survival rate and early fruit setting. The grafting survival rate of the paraphlonias which are changed to be excellent from inferior by the method reaches up to 90%; after the grafting, the tips of branches extracted from scions grow well, and most of tips of branches can realize heading and bearing sophora flower buds in the current year. The method has the outstanding advantages of being simple to operate, easy to popularize, realizing large-scale production, and realizing that the inferior paraphlonias which are changed to be excellent from inferior and early bear sophora flower buds in the short time, thereby realizing the economical value in the shortest time, and having a super positive influence on the industrialization development of the paraphlonias.

In an acoustic sensor, a diaphragm arranged on an upper side of a silicon substrate includes a back chamber, and an anchor supports the diaphragm. An insulating plate portion fixed to an upper surface of the silicon substrate covers the diaphragm with a gap. A conductive fixed electrode film arranged on a lower surface of the plate portion configures a back plate. The change in electrostatic capacitance between the fixed electrode film and the diaphragm outputs to the outside from a fixed side electrode pad and a movable side electrode pad as an electric signal. A protective film is arranged continuously with the plate portion at an outer periphery of the plate portion. The protective film covers the outer peripheral part of the upper surface of the silicon substrate, and the outer periphery of the protective film coincides with the outer periphery of the upper surface of the silicon substrate.

A method of producing an oxidized tantalum nitride (TaO_xN_x) hardmask layer for use in dual-damascene processing is described. Fine-line dual-damascene processing places competing, conflicting demands on the hardmask. Whereas critical dimension control needs a thicker hardmask, optical lithographic alignment is frustrated by the opacity of thick tantalum nitride (TaN). The technique solves the problem of TaN hardmask opacity with increasing thickness by oxidizing the TaN layer. Oxidation of the TaN hardmask increases the thickness of the hardmask to two to four times its original thickness and simultaneously increases its transparency by greater than ten times. This permits better CD control associated with a thicker hardmask while facilitating optical lithographic alignment.

The invention provides a manufacturing method of a heat pipe and the heat pipe. The manufacturing method of the heat pipe comprises the following steps of: a pre-flattening step and a step of flattening again, wherein in the pre-flattening step, a rod body is inserted into a pipe body, the pipe body is flattened, then capillary particles are filled into the pipe body, and the rod body is taken out; and in the step of flattening again, the pipe body is flattened further.

A cup holder holding an object includes: a storing part being cylindrical and being opened at an upper portion; an opening part provided at a side wall of the storing part; a holder being biased towards an interior of the storing part and being stored inside the opening part so that the holder may protrude and retract; and a restricting part provided on the opening part, wherein the restricting part restrains a movement of the holder at a maximum storage position.

Disclosed is a display device with integrated touch screen capable of minimizing the increase of thickness caused by touch electrodes, and a method for fabricating the same, wherein the display device may include first electrode on a first substrate, an organic light emitting layer on the first electrode, a second electrode on the organic light emitting layer, and an encapsulation film on the second electrode, wherein the encapsulation film includes a touch sensing layer with a first touch electrode, a second touch electrode, and a first insulating film, the first touch electrode, the second touch electrode, and the first insulating film are coplanar, and the first insulating film is disposed between the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode.

The invention relates to a seedling medium and a preparation method thereof, wherein the medium comprises the following components of raw materials: one or more of crop by-products, organic wastes, by-products generated in grass pulping process when preparing materials, and ammonia water. The method comprises the following steps: mixing one or more of the crop by-products, the organic wastes, theby-products of the grass pulping process when preparing the materials, and the ammonia water, and then fermenting to gain the medium, wherein nitrogenous condensate water generated when concentratingblack liquid generated in a neutral ammonium sulfite process is optimally selected as the ammonia water, and optimally, the condensate water with 0.05-0.55% of nitrogen content and at the temperatureof 25-70 DEG C is the best; and by-products generated in preparation department in the neutral ammonium sulfite process are optimally selected as the crop by-products. The method re-uses the waste and waste liquid which are generated in the neutral ammonium sulfite process to turn waste into wealth. The permeability and nutrient content of the medium are respectively superior to that of peat perlite, when the medium is used in the growth test of nursery stock of forest, the nursery stock has obvious grow, and the quantity of the root system can be increased by over 30 percent.